Trying in vain to figure it all out. All of it. I'm into elegant
and poetic systems, moving works, curious phenomena, and just about
everything else.

When I'm not engrossed in someone or some concept I take deep
enjoyment in less abstract things. I have a great love for music,
and like to enjoy nature frequently.

Some of my favorite moments in life are when I can take something
and finally see the principles and structures at it's core, the
network diagram that represents a web of economics relationships,
or the algorithm that determines the growth pattern of a
tree.

On the other hand, some of my other favorite moments in life are
when that kind of clear analytical understanding of a thing are
totally out of my grasp. Listening to a song for the 12th time in a
row because it's that amazing, sitting on a quiet mountaintop
hearing the wind and little else, or simply being with those you
love.

EDIT: While still relevant, the text below the line isn't entirely
accurate. Still reorienting.

As of April 1st I'll be a month sober (of the useless ones). I'm in
the process of rediscovering the person I want to be, and figuring
out the steps it's going to take to get there. This means finding
the patterns that invigorate and empower me. Coming out of a
personal dark ages is an awesome time, in the old sense of the
word.

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Implementing ideals. Figuring out how to balance all the things I
care about, and the extrapolations of different
configurations.

For whatever reason, I'm no longer on the degree -> career ->
stability life track, just setting down the road, and starting to
love it.

More literally, I walk dogs during the day, nerd out in many
directions in the afternoons (books, linux, tumblr, sex, etc.), and
dance Samba on the weekends!

It became clear to me recently that as much as I wish it weren't
the case, my life is not driven by any abstract goal, such as the
pursuit of knowledge, artistic beauty, or music, as much as I do
love all of those things. The most important thing to me are the
people in my life and my relationships with them.

Otherwise, that I'm pretty tall, and people tend to say I'm
confident, sometimes overly so. Once we start talking, you may
notice that if you bring the subject around to something I'm
interested, whether it's philosophy of mind, moral foundations,
mechanical keyboards, or anything subject to sufficiently
unnecessary analysis, I'll have trouble restraining myself to usual
levels of conversational excitement. The only thing better is if
it's something *you* love that I have no idea about! Please,
explain your nerdy thing to me for hours, it's just my favorite
dynamic in the world.

A few months ago my sister's roommate told her that my sister and I
both hum almost all the time when we're doing things. It seems I
have been doing this for years and had no idea. So I guess I really
have no idea what I'm like!

I can only answer with what I've been interested in recently, and a
scattershot sampling of what I can remember. My tendency is to read
something, internalize the message/content and move on. If you ask
me about something specific I could probably tell you though!

A few genres I like are hip-hop, ambient/experimental, sludge
metal, folk/indie/musicistealfromfriends, and jazz. A couple
artists I like are Fuck Buttons, Das EFX, zeroh, Brian Eno, The
Books, Sharon van Etten. For a complete list of shibboleths, see:
http://www.last.fm/user/Samineru

Foodwise, my favorite thing in the world is cooking new dishes, and
learning new techniques. That being said, I always come back to
Indian food. Yum.

Anything and everything. The algorithms and process underlying all
around us, linguistics, sociology, semiotics, gender theory, theory
of mind, how people change their minds, how to define the self in
face of change, and so much more. A lot of the time though, just
how to be *better*.

Watching the weirdest movie I can find and talking bullshit with
some friends, enjoying a great new album, sitting somewhere outside
that's unjustifiably pretty, or reading a book while listening to
new music.